http://java.dzone.com/articles/top-10-books-advanced-level – a list of good books for Java developers http://www.infoq.com/presentations/firefox-large-javascript-project – presentation on techniques which help Mozilla to maintain huge project like Firefox. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scala-enterprise-introduction – a pretty nice introduction into Scala and Scala ecosystem. However no much new stuff for the developers who had a chance to put hands on Scala already http://parleys.com/p/5148922b0364bc17fc56c94d – Kotlin introduction with the live coding session. A very nice description of the language features

http://scaladays.org/ I bet it was a good conference. Hopefully we’ll see videos on Parleys. http://parleys.com/p/518ab75fe4b0e1e8d573aecd Overview of new Java 8 features. Some of these things are new to me. http://hexlet.org/ A set of MOOC for Russian-speaking developers http://www.packtpub.com/java-7-new-features-cookbook/book A set of recipes on how to use new features of JDK 7. Some chapters try to combine so different areas of JVM. Unfortunately invokedynamic is not described here even though it’s mostly aimed towards language developers. In any case a pretty…

Functional languages are cool in terms of making application parts running in parallel. This brings you great scalability of appllication when running on multicore systems or in cloud. So I’ve started looking at the direction of Scala which is based on Java and adds all benefits of the functional programming. I plan to see how Java integrates with Scala and vice versa in the next post. This one just describes problems of a newbie when trying to run first Scala…